General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough GCB, GCMG, KCVO (12 August 1870 – 1963) was a senior officer in the British Army, who commanded the British Fifth Army from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
He was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Charles John Stanley Gough VC, GCB (1832-1912), and his wife, Harriette Anastasia de la Poer (d- 26 March 1916), daughter of John William Poer, styled seventeenth Baron de la Poer, of Gurteen, County Wate...
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General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough GCB, GCMG, KCVO (12 August 1870 – 1963) was a senior officer in the British Army, who commanded the British Fifth Army from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
He was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Charles John Stanley Gough VC, GCB (1832-1912), and his wife, Harriette Anastasia de la Poer (d- 26 March 1916), daughter of John William Poer, styled seventeenth Baron de la Poer, of Gurteen, County Waterford, formerly MP for County Waterford. Brigadier-General John Edmund Gough VC (1871-1915) was his brother. Hubert Gough grew up in Ireland where 'all our relatives were anti-Home Rulers'.
After leaving Eton, Gough gained entrance to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1888. He joined the 16th Lancers in 1889 and served in the Tirah campaign. Gough first became widely known for his command of a relief column during the siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War. His meeting with George Stuart White was widely portrayed.
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